Smart people can do dumb things. Their LinkedIn profile looks typical for an OpenAI engineer.

We also don’t know if this person did it under duress.

50% is looking and sounding the part, the other 50% is having a good university on your resume / good networking.

  >how does someone this dumb get hired

It's AI inbreeding all the way down.

Probably went to a prestigious university or had connections.

Technical skill and common sense/street smarts are usually inversely related.

I could def espionage better. Does that qualify me to work at OpenAI?

You might want to have a seat first if you want this explained.